You said you compiled the Xen kernels from the sources. Did you enable the correct ACPI settings in the kernel configuration? Can you post the ACPI related lines of the kernel configuration file (in /boot)?

I wrote before, i compiled the xen kernel from source, and i did, but it didn't feel like i did it myself, i was following your (falko) instructions.

When i need to change something what is not in the howto, like this acpi, then i'm lost hahah
I tried to solve it, searched on google and google groups and everything read a lot of posts.

I did surfed thru the menuconfig sub menu's so i was kind of warm
I used the search option / in the menuconfig.

It did found 2 acpi entries about pnp. I thought that where not the right acpi options. so i didn't select those. I wasn't sure menuconfig is used to add kernel options, now i do

After a good night of sleep i started again with "Make menuconfig" and there it is right in front of my nose duh. If i did it right it should now being added to the kernel.

wel its not added to the kernel so i'm stil doing something wrong.
i'm going to install the whole host system again maybe that'l help.

I did a clean sarge install on the host system.
I'm now at the point to configure "make menuconfig" again and again the acpi options are gone so i think its not possible to add acpi modules into xen kernel.

The day before yesterday i installed Sarge several times new over and over again because i want a clean system. Everytime i started the Xen howto and every time there was no "ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)" in menuconfig. then i went to bed frustrated it didn't work.

When i woke up yesterday and started with the system i left the day befor all of a sudden this "ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)" was right in the first screen in menuconfig. I thought great, and put a * on "ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)" and thought that was oke i started the system but no acpi, no /proc/acpi. So i started al over again with a new clean sarge install on the host system but now there is no "ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)" option in menuconfig.

Your right, i didn't write anything in /etc/modules except this "3c95x" for the nic. I didn't know i had to put something in /etc/modules.
But when there is no "ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)" option in menuconfig i can't give it a * or a M.

I don't understand one time this option is in menuconfig and a other time it is not.

I start with setting up Sarge the way falko explains at the beginning of the howto. Except i made /vserver on hdb1. When i reach the line "make menuconfig" in the howto, the acpi options are not present in the interface that shows up. When i reboot the host system at this point and try another time "make menuconfig" the acpi options are present.

I set the acpi options the way explained in this thread.
Then i go on with the howto, till the "cp boot/* /boot" line. When i enter the command (cp boot/* /boot) i get: Onbekend bestand of map (in english: unknown file or map). So it did not install the kernel into the ~/xen/install.

It probably has to do with my reboot right before i configure "make menuconfig".

Am i doing something wrong or could it be that for some reason these acpi options might not work with my computer? Wel i don't think its the computer because with the standard kernel it did work. So i have to do something wrong, if Xen supports acpi wich it does. Am i asking the wrong questions? Do i forget something? Or some other reason why this isn't working?

I'd really like to help you, but when I wrote the Xen tutorial I didn't focus on ACPI, so I cannot tell if/how this works...

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Oke i understand. Thank you for all your help Falko.
I thought maybe it was me or my glasses or something else i could blame.
But i gues it might stil be possible this doesn't work with my computer and Xen and ACPI. Oh wel, i go on then without acpi sniff ;-)